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It is now widely appreciated that nutrition contributes significantly to the optimal working of the immune system and hence to personal health. In Diet and Human Immune Function, leading international researchers and clinicians comprehensively detail what is known about the ability of diet to enhance human immune function in health, disease, and under various conditions of stress. The authors offer state-of-the-art critical appraisals of the influences on the human immune system of several important vitamins (vitamins A, C, and E, as well as carotenoids, such as b-carotene) and minerals (iron, selenium, and zinc), both singly and in combination. The authors also examine how nutrition modulates immune function in such disease states as rheumatoid arthritis, osteoporosis, HIV infection, and cancer. Immune responses to three forms of stress -- vigorous exercise, military conditions, and air pollution (in relation to allergic asthma) -- are discussed in depth in unique chapters not found in any other texts. Probiotics and long-chain fatty acids are also examined for their immunomodulatory effects. A much-needed overview of the nutritional consequences of drug-disease interactions provi

Who reads Diet and Human Immune Function (Nutrition and Health)?

Author

David A. Hughes, L. Gail Darlington, and Adrianne Bendich

Publisher

Humana Press : Imprint : Humana

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280831379

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Chemistry, Medical